2023 - Portugal in May
He was one of our first students, one of the first to graduate from high school, and now he has graduated from university: Ribna Fernando Dafa, proud Bachelor of Social Sciences.
2023 - Portugal in May
It was a long way and even harder than expected. After graduating with honors from high school in Bissau and taking a six-month preparatory course, Ribna Fernando Dafa began his studies at the Instituto Politécnico in the Portuguese city of Beja in summer 2019. He originally wanted to become an IT engineer, then he decided on social sciences. The initial optimism was thwarted early on by the painful experience of not being able to keep up in Portuguese, the local language - the native language for most students here, but a foreign language for Ribna. Ribna invested a year to catch up - with the success of making it on schedule to the longed-for exam. He describes his thanks and his plans for the future in a moving letter. You can read it here.